About the Author

Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in
Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. In
1957 he began a second career, as a playwright, poet, and novelist.
The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary
prizes awarded in Germany, he has become one of the most widely
translated and admired writers of his generation. He published nine
novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of
short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in
Austria in 1989.

Reviews

"Bernhard's fiction is full of energy; his restless imagination
cannot leave a fact or idea alone. . . . Only someone with such a
brilliant, tricky, inexhaustible mind could get away with
Wittgenstein's Nephew."
--The New York Times "In its obsessive, elegant rhythms and
narrative eloquence, [Wittgenstein's Nephew] resembles a
tragic aria by Richard Strauss. . . . A memento mori that
approaches genius."
--Wall Street Journal "Oddly moving and funny. . . . A
meditative fugue for mad, brilliant voices on the themes of death,
death-in-life and the artist's and thinker's role in society."
--Chicago Tribune "Bernhard is a writer of great originality
and fascination."
--The New York Review of Books "In the annals of literature,
Thomas Bernhard will stand as Austria's postwar genius."
--The Washington Times "Thomas Bernhard is one of the
masters of contemporary European fiction. . . . After Kafka and
Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the most acute, the most
capable of exemplary images and gestures, in modern
literature."
--George Steiner "It is high time that we keep Bernhard firmly in
our mind, as European readers have been doing for many years
now."
--Christian Science Monitor

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